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DUBAI / Emirates Business The first edition of the ‘First Arab Land Conference’, which is organised by Dubai Land Department (DLD), will launch on Monday and will run for three days until February 28. The ‘First Arab Land Conference’ is aligned with the ‘UAE Innovation Month 2018’ and held in partnership with the World Bank, Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has announced it is accepting applications for the third cohort of its Regulatory Laboratory (Reglab), until May 10, with a theme focusing on enhancing access to financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The international financial centre based in Abu Dhabi says the SME sector is a fundamental part of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre (SZGMC), in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), will host the second session of the ‘Hajj: Memories of a Journey Talks Programme’ this coming Wednesday at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, exploring the stories of the objects that lie at the heart ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM As the UAE marks Innovation Month in February, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, Masdar, is accelerating the commercialisation of clean technologies at home and abroad. Established in 2006 to help maintain Abu Dhabi’s leadership in the global energy sector, while supporting the diversification of both its economy and energy sources for the benefit of future generations, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), on Sunday announced that its emissions of perfluorocarbons were at a record low for the company in 2017. EGA has signed an agreement with the University of New South Wales to research how to carry out further reductions. Perfluorocarbons, known as PFCs, are a group of greenhouse gases which have thousands of ...

Dubai / Emirates Business More than 300 media experts from around the world will convene in Dubai next week for the 13th edition of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) Middle East Conference, organised in association with Dubai Production City (DPC). Set to run from February 28 to March 1 at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach ...

LONDON, AUSTIN and DUBAI Emirates Business In its efforts to continue pioneering innovative banking solutions, UAE’s leading financial institution, Mashreq, announced that it is working with Blue Prism to increase productivity, improve customer experiences and deliver new services. Mashreq selected Blue Prism’s secure, scalable and easy-to-use Digital Workforce to deliver greater operational efficiencies, higher accuracy and a massive reduction in ...

Bloomberg Libya’s oil exports from the Mellitah terminal will be “modified” after protests disrupted production at the key El-Feel deposit for the first time in two months, putting the OPEC nation’s crude production at risk of a decline again. Crude loadings at Mellitah, the export terminal for El-Feel, will be “modified” after force majeure was declared on deliveries from the ...

Bloomberg The priciest US gasoline may only be getting pricier. Since March 2017, filling up your car’s 20-gallon (75-liter) gasoline tank with premium has cost at least $10 more than if you’d pumped regular. The widening spread has been driven by additional demand for the fuel and by tightened air rules that have reduced supply. Those conditions are probably going ...

MANAMA / Reuters Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) , owner of one of the world’s largest aluminium smelters, will raise by the end of this year’s first quarter the final debt amount needed to fund its Line 6 expansion project, a company official told Reuters. With Line 6, Alba will become the world’s largest single aluminium smelter complex, increasing production capacity by ...